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Time Machine VR

Minority Media Inc. · 2016-05-19

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Nov 18, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Nov 15, 2016 (PlayStation VR), Aug 28, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are a time traveller tasked with exploring the Jurassic era and the creatures that once ruled the prehistoric oceans. Use an array of advanced tech tools to track, examine, and discover the scientific secrets of mosasaurs, livyatans, and megalodons, among others!

64%
positive of 117 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$29.99
steam price (US)
Time Machine VR is an adventure, indie, simulation video game developed by Minority Media. It was released for Early Access on August 28, 2015, through Steam. and the full game was released through Steam on May 19, 2016. It was released for PlayStation VR on the PlayStation 4 on November 15, 2016, and in Australia and Europe, three days later.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 26,053 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.9k–7.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 117 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920152024Week of 2015-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyVR SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

VRIndieSci-fiScienceAdventureDinosaursEducationSimulationUnderwaterAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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